lunes, febrero 11, 2013

Iran gives stealth drone secrets to Russia

Russia has helped decode an American stealth drone that was captured
by Iran 14 months ago in exchange for its secrets, a source has told
WND.

Last week,
Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the Revolutionary
Guards air and space division, announced the decoding of the drone,
while Islamic regime media aired aerial footage below from the drone
showing some of its operational capabilities.

“Some (Guards officers) believed that America would send its commando
unit to destroy (the drone) while others were of the opinion that the
U.S. would not risk having its forces get caught by us, creating a
bigger problem for themselves, and that they might just do an air raid
to destroy it,” Hajizadeh said. “We gave it a 10 to 15 percent chance on
the air raid, and because of that we ordered an alert at all our
missile bases to be ready to launch against all U.S. bases (in the
region) if they did take any action.”

When the drone was captured, President Obama said, “We’ve asked for it back. We’ll see how the Iranians respond.”

According to Hamidreza Zakeri, a former intelligence officer of the
regime who has defected to Europe, Iran and Russia had long been working
on trapping a U.S. drone.

A Russian military team from its air and space division had secretly
entered Iran days after a strategic agreement between the two countries
in 2007 and was stationed at Revolutionary Guard bases to help the
Guards with its weapons program and access to modern U.S. technology.

After studying the stealth drone’s travel routes and its surveillance
of Iran’s skies, the Russians successfully hacked into the system of
one of the RQ170s and forced it to land in Iran Dec. 4, 2011.

With this collaboration, all the information of the stealth drone is
now in the hands of the Russians, and much has been given to Iran’s
Defense Ministry. Russia in turn provided Iran with the information on
its anti-air defense system S300. Russia, because of international
sanctions against Iran, could not deliver the actual S300 system.

Other information passed to Iran included technology on the American
fighters F35 and X36, which eventually resulted in the Defense Ministry
publicly unveiling its new jet fighter, the Qaher 313, with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad boasting of the advanced features of this super stealth fighter.

However, according to the source, the fighter shown by Iranian media
was merely a shell model and not operational and that the regime has
only tested the smaller size. The project originally was scheduled to be
completed in 2016, but due to the sanctions and economic problems, the
regime has had problems following through with the timetable.

Russian-Iranian collaboration goes back many years. After the fall of
the Soviet Union in the 1990s and the formation of the new republics,
oil reserves in the Caspian Sea became an issue among the neighboring
countries, resulting in disputes with Iran, which claimed half of the
reserves.

Russia worried about the impact of the increased importance of this
new market and the possible decrease in value of its Siberian oil
fields, where over 40 percent of its income is based on its export of
gas and oil. Vladimir Putin made a special trip to Iran in 2007 over the
issue.

Because the Caspian-Caucasus region could play a significant role in
the world economy and world policy, Putin in his meeting with Iran’s
supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was able to significantly expand
Russia’s collaboration with the Islamic regime. He also got an
agreement on the division of Caspian oil reserves and a bigger Russian
role in transporting the oil out of that area.

The 10-year agreement called for the expansion of commerce between
the two countries of up to $200 billion and military and secret projects
totaling $350 billion.

It was the first time a Kremlin chief visited Iran since Josef Stalin’s trip in 1943.

Russian collaboration extends to the regime’s missile, nuclear and
even bio-weapons programs. Sources in the Islamic regime previously have
revealed exclusively to WND the existence of secret bio-weapons site in
Iran, where, with the help of Russia, Iran has mastered production of
eight microbial agents, arming its missiles with biological warheads,
and a nuclear site at which, with Russian help, laser technology is enriching uranium.

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